Synthesis of a low band gap polymer and its application in highly efficient polymer solar cells

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 15586-15587

  Hou, Jianhui ^a   Chen, Hsiang Yu ^a   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Chen, Ruby I ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Wu, Yue ^a   Li, Gang ^a  

^a Solarmer Energy Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; ESTER GROUPS; LARGE-SCALE MANUFACTURING; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ESTERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

POLYMERS;

GAP POLYMER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 70350656077     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9064975     Document Type: Article

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